Editing Gerald Scarfe

{{short description|English cartoonist, illustrator, animator (born 1936)}}
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| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE|RDI}}
| name             = Gerald Scarfe
| image            = Gerald Scarfe-2.jpg
| caption          = Illustration of Scarfe
| birth_name       = Gerald Anthony Scarfe
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|1936|6|1|df=y}}
| birth_place      = London, England
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| field            = {{ubl|[[Editorial cartoon]]|[[Drawing]]|[[Animation]]}}
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| works            = ''[[Pink Floyd – The Wall]]'' (1982) <br /> ''[[Yes Minister]]'' and ''[[Yes, Prime Minister]]'' titles (1980–1987) <br /> ''[[Hercules (1997 film)|Hercules]]'' (1997)
| spouse           = {{marriage|[[Jane Asher]]|1981}}
| children         = 3
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'''Gerald Anthony Scarfe''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE|RDI}} (born 1 June 1936) is an English [[satirical]] [[cartoonist]] and [[illustrator]]. He has worked as [[editorial cartoonist]] for ''[[The Sunday Times (UK)|The Sunday Times]]'' and illustrator for ''[[The New Yorker]]''.

Scarfe’s other work includes graphics for rock group [[Pink Floyd]], particularly on their 1979 album ''[[The Wall]]'', its [[Pink Floyd—The Wall|1982 film adaptation]], and tour ([[The Wall Tour|1980–81]]), as well as the music video for "[[Welcome to the Machine]]".<ref>John Walker. (1987) [http://www.artdesigncafe.com/Gerald-Scarfe-Pink-Floyd-The-Wall-Walker-1987 "Gerald Scarfe & Pink Floyd"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120201223959/http://www.artdesigncafe.com/Gerald-Scarfe-Pink-Floyd-The-Wall-Walker-1987 |date=1 February 2012 }}. In ''Cross-Overs: Art into Pop, Pop into Art''/''artdesigncafe''. Retrieved 31 December 2011.</ref><ref name=floydianslip>{{cite web|url=http://www.floydianslip.com/pink-floyd/interviews/gerald-scarfe.php|title=Interview with Floydian Slip radio program|access-date=8 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101208163346/http://www.floydianslip.com/pink-floyd/interviews/gerald-scarfe.php|archive-date=8 December 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> From 1980 through to 1987, Scarfe also provided the opening animated titles and end credit illustrations for ''[[Yes Minister]]'' and ''[[Yes, Prime Minister]]'' for [[BBC Television]]. Also, Scarfe was the production designer on the [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] animated feature ''[[Hercules (1997 film)|Hercules]]'' (1997).

==Early life==
Scarfe was born in [[St John's Wood]], London.<ref>GRO Register of Births: SEP 1936 1a 774 HAMPSTEAD, Gerald A. Scarfe, mmn = Gardner</ref> As Scarfe was severely [[asthma]]tic as a child, he spent many of his early years bed-ridden,<ref name="big issue">{{cite web |url=https://www.bigissue.com/latest/cartoonist-gerald-scarfe-reveals-the-one-thing-he-couldnt-draw/ |title=Gerald Scarfe: How my childhood loneliness led to my grotesque cartoons|work=Big Issue |date= 4 October 2019|first=4 October 2019 Jane |last=Graham }}</ref> so drawing became a means of entertainment as well as a creative outlet. Scarfe speculated that the dark and grotesque images that often characterise his work are a result of his loneliness and asthma.<ref name="big issue" /> Scarfe has stated that the irreverence apparent in much of his work can be traced back to "dodgy treatments" and a reliance on what he feels were incompetent doctors.<ref>{{cite news|first=Kevin|last=Perry|title=Gerald Scarfe feature interview and profile|url=http://kevinegperry.com/2007/02/27/gerald-scarfe-interview|publisher=[[The Beaver (newspaper)|The Beaver]]|date=27 February 2007|access-date=29 September 2010|location=London, UK|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120101409/http://kevinegperry.com/2007/02/27/gerald-scarfe-interview/|archive-date=20 January 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

The cartoonist [[Ronald Searle]] was an early influence for Scarfe. At the age of 14 and now living in [[Hampstead]], North London, Scarfe decided it would be easy to cycle to [[Bayswater]] and visit Searle. He went several times but never rang the doorbell. It would be decades before he would actually meet Searle in 2005.<ref name=salter>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/7836180/Gerald-Scarfe-political-cartoonist.html |title=Gerald Scarfe, political cartoonist |first= Jessica|last= Salter|date= 17 June 2010|work=The Telegraph |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131223092217/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/7836180/Gerald-Scarfe-political-cartoonist.html |archive-date=23 December 2013 }}</ref> Scarfe attended [[Saint Martin's School of Art]] (now part of the [[University of the Arts London]]) in [[Holborn]], London.<ref name=horn>[[Maurice Horn]] (1983). [https://books.google.com/books?id=nvHVAAAAMAAJ ''The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons''], Volume 4. London: Chelsea House Publishers. {{ISBN|9780877543992}}. p. 495. Accessed August 2013.</ref> He also attended the [[London College of Communication|London College of Printing]],<ref name=horn /> and East Ham Technical College (now [[Newham College of Further Education]]).<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KKWqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT72 |title=A Whole Scene Going On: Inside the Sixties – From Private Eye to the Pop Revolution |first= Barry|last= Fantoni |date=5 September 2019 |publisher=Birlinn|isbn=9781788852401 }}</ref>

==Career==

===Early work===
After briefly working in advertising, a profession he grew to dislike intensely, Scarfe's early [[caricature]]s of public figures were published in satirical magazine ''[[Private Eye]]'' throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Beginning in 1960, he produced illustrations for ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'', ''[[The Evening Standard]]'' and ''[[The Daily Sketch]]''. ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' magazine assigned Scarfe to cover the 1964 US presidential election. He continued to work for ''The Sunday Times'' for two years, also producing several cover illustrations for ''Time'' magazine, including caricatures of The Beatles in 1967.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Souter|first1=Nick|last2=Souter|first2=Tessa|title=The Illustration Handbook: A guide to the world's greatest illustrators|year=2012|publisher=Oceana|isbn=978-1-84573-473-2|page =307}}</ref>

In the mid-1960s he took a job at the ''[[Daily Mail]]'' following a [[Dutch auction]] for his services with the ''[[Daily Express]]''. His decision to work for the ''Daily Mail'' led to his estrangement from fellow cartoonist [[Ralph Steadman]], alongside whom he had studied art at East Ham Technical College. Soon after, Steadman was commissioned to illustrate Scarfe and "produced an image that was half saint and half Superman, but with a disconnected heart".<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/artists/ralphsteadman/biography|title=Ralph Steadman|type=biography|series=British Cartoon Archive|publisher=University of Kent|access-date=7 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215123542/http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/artists/ralphsteadman/biography|archive-date=15 February 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> Scarfe spent only one year working for the ''Daily Mail'', during which time he was sent to provide illustrations from the [[Vietnam War]].

===Pink Floyd and Roger Waters===
Scarfe was approached to work with [[Pink Floyd]] after [[Roger Waters]] and [[Nick Mason]] both saw his animated [[BBC]] film ''A Long Drawn Out Trip''. Pink Floyd's 1974 programme for their tour in the UK and US, in the form of a comic, included a centre-spread caricature of the band.<ref name="MM">{{Cite book| publisher = Omnibus| isbn = 978-0711941090| last1 = Miles| first1 = Barry| last2 = Mabbett| first2 = Andy| title = Pink Floyd - The Visual Documentary| location = London| date = 1994}}</ref> Scarfe later produced a set of animated short clips used on the 1977 ''[[In the Flesh (1977 Pink Floyd 'Animals' tour)|In The Flesh]]'' tour, including a full-length music video for the song ''[[Welcome to the Machine]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.rogerwaters.org/22/scarfeint.html|title=A Long Drawn-Out Trip: An Interview with Gerald Scarfe|first=Michael|last=Simone|journal=REG Magazine|issue=22|access-date=26 January 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820133338/http://www.rogerwaters.org/22/scarfeint.html|archive-date=20 August 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Scarfe also drew the illustrations for their 1979 album ''[[The Wall]]'' and provided animation and stage props, including enormous inflatable characters for the subsequent [[The Wall Tour (1980-1981)|1980–1981 concert tour in support of that album]].<ref name="MM" /> In 1982, he worked on the [[Pink Floyd – The Wall|film version of ''The Wall'']], although he and Roger Waters fell out with director [[Alan Parker]] during the latter stages of editing.<ref name="Mabbett3">{{Cite book| publisher = Omnibus| isbn = 9781849383707| last = Mabbett| first = Andy| title = Pink Floyd - The Music and the Mystery| location = London| date = 2010}}</ref> As well as the artwork, Scarfe contributed 15 minutes' worth of elaborate animation to the film, including a sequence depicting [[The Blitz|the German bombing campaign over England during World War II]], set to the song "[[Goodbye Blue Sky]]". Some of the animated footage was not original to the film, having been produced for and used in the 1980–81 concert tour, as well as being featured in the 1979 [[music video]] for "[[Another Brick in the Wall|Another Brick in the Wall: Part 2]]".{{citation needed|date=June 2014}}

Scarfe continued to work with Roger Waters after the latter left Pink Floyd, creating the graphics and animation for Waters' solo album ''[[The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking]]'' (1984) and its supporting tour.<ref name="Mabbett3" /> Scarfe was also involved in subsequent theatrical adaptations of ''The Wall'', including [[The Wall Concert in Berlin]] (1990),<ref name="Mabbett3" /> and Waters' worldwide [[The Wall Live (2010-2013)]] tour, where his animations were projected on a vast scale. Scarfe's collaboration with Waters was marked in 2008 by the release of a signed limited-edition eight-print series, "Scarfe on the Wall", which contained a monograph book with an extended new interview with Scarfe and was signed by Roger Waters. Early editions of "Scarfe on The Wall" (by date of pre-order, not issue number) came with an additional print giving a total of nine in the set – making these the rarest and most valuable sets. In 2010, Scarfe's book ''The Making of Pink Floyd: The Wall'' was published, detailing the artist's work with Pink Floyd and Roger Waters from 1974 to 2010. The book contains contributions from Floyd members Roger Waters, Nick Mason, and [[David Gilmour]], as well as director of the film, Alan Parker.<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-11620342/meet-the-author-gerald-scarfe-on-his-role-with-pink-floyd|title=BBC News Meet The Author: Gerald Scarfe on His Role with Pink Floyd|work=BBC News|date=25 October 2010}}</ref>

===''The Exceptional Child''===
Scarfe sketched of the eponymous ''Exceptional Child'' for the opening title sequence of the BBC's 1964 television documentary of the same name.<ref>{{citation|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c7db41abb7784e7f9c431ad08a7e22a8|title=BBC Programme Index: The Exceptional Child|date=26 May 2025}}</ref>

===''The Fall And Rise of Reginald Perrin''===
He designed the 'Grot' logo for the BBC TV series ''[[The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin]]''.

===''Yes Minister''===
He provided caricatures of [[Paul Eddington]], Sir [[Nigel Hawthorne]] and [[Derek Fowlds]] (as their respective characters) for the opening and closing sequences of ''[[Yes Minister]]'' and ''[[Yes, Prime Minister]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/reveller/attractions/scarfe-s-yes-minister-art-on-sale-6690031.html|title=Scarfe's Yes Minister art on sale |date=5 April 2012 |work=Evening Standard}}</ref>

===''Hercules''===
Scarfe was approached to work on the 1997 [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] film ''[[Hercules (1997 film)|Hercules]]'' by [[Ron Clements]] and [[John Musker]], longtime fans who had risen to prominence within Disney following the success of ''[[The Little Mermaid (1989 movie)|The Little Mermaid]]''. Scarfe worked as a conceptual character artist, designing almost all of the characters and then supervising the 900 Disney artists charged with adapting his designs for the film.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Membery|first1=York|title=Political drawing-room|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/187b3638-54d6-11e0-96f3-00144feab49a.html|access-date=24 July 2016|work=Financial Times|date=25 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817040341/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/187b3638-54d6-11e0-96f3-00144feab49a.html|archive-date=17 August 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Postage stamps===
The [[Royal Mail]] used Scarfe's artwork for a set of five [[Commemorative stamp|commemorative postage stamps]], issued on 23 April 1998. Honoring English comedians, the stamps feature Scarfe caricatures of [[Tommy Cooper]], [[Eric Morecambe]], [[Joyce Grenfell]], [[Les Dawson]] and [[Peter Cook]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=The laugh post!|newspaper=[[Daily Record (Scotland)]]|date=2 March 1998|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-60569181.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611025538/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-60569181.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 June 2014|access-date=25 January 2014|via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/82259.stm|title=Comic genius is licked|date=23 April 1998|publisher=BBC|work=News.bbc.co.uk|access-date=26 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203023054/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/82259.stm|archive-date=3 February 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Millennium Dome sculpture===
He was invited to create a sculpture for the [[Millennium Dome]], which was entitled "Self Portrait". The Dome's chief executive PY Gerbeau said "it mirrors what we like – and what we don't – about our nation".<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2000/dome_tour/portrait.stm|work=BBC News|title=Tour the Dome|year=2000|access-date=4 March 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613145807/http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2000/dome_tour/portrait.stm|archive-date=13 June 2007|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Theatre/stage design===
Scarfe has designed sets for a number of operatic productions, including [[Tobias Picker]]'s ''[[Fantastic Mr. Fox (opera)|Fantastic Mr. Fox]]''. Following a chance meeting at a [[BBC]] prom he worked with [[Peter Hall (theatre director)|Peter Hall]] on his version of [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart's]] ''[[The Magic Flute]]'', which drew critical acclaim. He is lined up to provide animation for ''[[Jim Steinman]]'s [[Bat Out of Hell]]'', a stage show featuring Steinman's music.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}} Scarfe designed the sets and costumes for the English National Opera's 1988 production of ''[[Orpheus in the Underworld]]''; among the costumes Scarfe designed were those of the characters Orpheus, Eurydice, and the Gods of Mount Olympus. He also produced all the costume and scenery designs for the 2002 [[Christopher Hampson]] production of ''[[The Nutcracker]]'', for the [[English National Ballet]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/dance/8179788/English-National-Ballet-fights-on.html|title=English National Ballet fights on|journal=The Daily Telegraph|last=Monahan|first=Mark|date=2010-12-05|access-date=2019-02-23|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190224115751/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/dance/8179788/English-National-Ballet-fights-on.html|archive-date=24 February 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> {{citation needed|date=June 2014}}

===Heroes and Villains===
In 2003 Scarfe collaborated with the [[National Portrait Gallery (London)|National Portrait Gallery]] and [[BBC Four]] to make caricatures of a number of famous Britons, to depict (along with guest commentary) their heroic and villainous attributes.  Amongst the over 30 portraits he depicted included caricatures of [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]], [[Winston Churchill]], [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth I]], [[Pete Best]], [[Richard Branson]], [[Adam Smith]], [[William Blake]], [[The Beatles]], [[Agatha Christie]] and [[Diana, Princess of Wales]]. In 2009, he also created a caricature of [[James May]] out of [[Lego]] which was shown in episode 5 of ''[[James May's Toy Stories#Lego (Episode 5)|James May's Toy Stories]]'' for [[BBC Two]].  Scarfe and [[Jane Asher]] also appeared in the episode. {{citation needed|date=June 2014}}

===Netanyahu cartoon===
In its edition of 27 January 2013 (Britain's [[Holocaust Memorial Day (UK)|Holocaust Memorial Day]]), London's ''[[The Sunday Times|Sunday Times]]'' published a [https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2013/01/TIMES-CARTOON.jpg cartoon] by Scarfe depicting Israel's Prime Minister [[Binyamin Netanyahu|Benjamin Netanyahu]] paving a wall with the blood and bodies of [[Palestinians]], captioned "Israeli elections—will cementing peace continue?"<ref>{{Cite news|title='Sunday Times' mocks Holocaust with Israel cartoon|author=JPost.com staff|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post|date=27 January 2013|url=http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=301129|access-date=26 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202123101/http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=301129|archive-date=2 February 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> The cartoon's timing and content was criticised by groups including the [[European Jewish Congress]] and the [[Board of Deputies of British Jews]], with accusations of [[antisemitism]] leveled against Scarfe.<ref>{{Citation |url=http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/01/27/3117916/offensive-anti-israel-cartoon-in-londons-sunday-times-called-blood-libel |title=Offensive anti-Israel cartoon in London's Sunday Times called blood libel |publisher=JTA |date=7 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130131005541/http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/01/27/3117916/offensive-anti-israel-cartoon-in-londons-sunday-times-called-blood-libel |archive-date=31 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4337679,00.html|title=Cartoon continues to stir controversy|publisher=ynetnews|access-date=7 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826133114/http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4337679,00.html|archive-date=26 August 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

Unaware the cartoon would appear on [[Holocaust Memorial Day]],<ref>Jennifer Lipman [http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/101023/scarfe-regrets-timing-sunday-times-netanyahu-cartoon "Scarfe "regrets timing" of Sunday Times Netanyahu cartoon"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130131120643/http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/101023/scarfe-regrets-timing-sunday-times-netanyahu-cartoon |date=31 January 2013 }}, ''The Jewish Chronicle'', 28 January 2013.</ref> Scarfe argued that the cartoon was clearly aimed specifically at Netanyahu and his policies, and were in response to his election, rather than being related to Holocaust Memorial Day.<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/four-reasons-why-u-k-cartoon-of-netanyahu-isn-t-anti-semitic-in-any-way.premium-1.496880|title=Four reasons why UK cartoon of Netanyahu isn't anti-semitic in any way|newspaper=Ha’aretz|first=Anshel|last=Pfeffer|date=2013-01-28|access-date=28 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128223050/http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/four-reasons-why-u-k-cartoon-of-netanyahu-isn-t-anti-semitic-in-any-way.premium-1.496880|archive-date=28 January 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/outcry-over-uk-papers-cartoon-showing-bloody-israeli-oppression|title=Outcry over UK paper's cartoon showing bloody Israeli oppression|newspaper=The Times of Israel|access-date=28 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130130090744/http://www.timesofisrael.com/outcry-over-uk-papers-cartoon-showing-bloody-israeli-oppression/|archive-date=30 January 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> The newspaper's proprietor, [[Rupert Murdoch]], apologised for the cartoon on [[Twitter]], and acting editor [[Martin Ivens]] promised to be more vigilant in future.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21239917 "Rupert Murdoch apologises over Gerald Scarfe cartoon"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180825090603/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21239917 |date=25 August 2018 }}, BBC News, 29 January 2013.</ref>

The cartoon was published in the Israeli newspaper ''[[Haaretz]]'', where [[Anshel Pfeffer]] discusses the cartoon in great detail, giving four reasons why, in his opinion, the cartoon is not antisemitic.<ref>Mark Gardner and Anshel Pfeffer [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/29/is-the-sunday-times-cartoon-antisemitic "Is the Sunday Times cartoon antisemitic?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161126100209/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/29/is-the-sunday-times-cartoon-antisemitic |date=26 November 2016 }}, ''The Guardian'', 29 January 2013. The citation featured a reprint of the ''Haaretz'' article by Pfeffer, which is only available via subscription on the original site.</ref> Writer [[Howard Jacobson]] claimed the cartoon was not antisemitic.<ref>Howard Jacobson. [https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/i-dont-care-for-scarfes-cartoon--or-political-cartoons-generally-but-i-dont-find-it-antisemitic-8477751.html "I don't care for Scarfe's cartoon but..."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926001229/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/i-dont-care-for-scarfes-cartoon--or-political-cartoons-generally-but-i-dont-find-it-antisemitic-8477751.html |date=26 September 2015 }}, ''The Independent'', 1 February 2013.</ref> British Chief Rabbi [[Jonathan Sacks|Lord Sacks]] condemned the cartoon.<ref>[http://www.chiefrabbi.org/2013/01/29/statement-on-the-gerald-scarfe-cartoon-in-the-sunday-times British Chief Rabbi condemns Scarfe cartoon] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201040259/http://www.chiefrabbi.org/2013/01/29/statement-on-the-gerald-scarfe-cartoon-in-the-sunday-times/ |date=1 February 2013 }}, 29 January 2013; accessed 7 June 2014.</ref>

===''Recycled Radio''===
Since June 2013, Scarfe has presented a programme on [[BBC Radio 4]] called ''Recycled Radio'',<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/jun/01/next-weeks-radio|title=Next week's radio: from Recycled Radio to 5 Live's Big Day Out|first=David|last=Hepworth|work=The Guardian|date=1 June 2013|access-date=18 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118230117/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/jun/01/next-weeks-radio|archive-date=18 November 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> which is described as "the chopped-up, looped-up, sped-up world...where old programmes are reused to explore a series of weighty subjects".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04f23qy|title=Recycled Radio|publisher=BBC Radio 4|access-date=18 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161120150342/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04f23qy|archive-date=20 November 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Bristol Charity Auction===

In October 2013 Scarfe donated his time to decorate one of the large Wallace & Gromit statues to be auctioned for the Bristol hospital charity that was featured live on the BBC.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-24394027/gromit-statue-auction-raises-23m-for-bristol-hospita|work=BBC News|title=Gromit statue auction raises £2.3m for Bristol hospital|date=4 October 2013}}</ref> His contribution finally ending up being sold to an internet bidder from Miami Florida where the statue was exported into a private collection, ultimately topping all estimates on value with a bid second highest only to the Pixar statue contribution.

===Scarfe's Bar===

In 2014, Scarfe's Bar was opened in the Covent Garden area of London, in the [[Rosewood London]], where his "distinctive caricatures not only decorate the walls but also influence the creative thrust behind their menus."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.savoirflair.com/en/article/scarfes-bar-london/533e6e83-3d65-4f34-aa0d-3cd938db6045 | title=Scarfes Bar London Celebrates 10th Anniversary | date=26 July 2023 }}</ref>

== Personal life ==
He is married to actress [[Jane Asher]], whom he met in 1971.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/my-secret-life-jane-asher-actress-amp-cook-401034.html|title=My Secret Life: Jane Asher, actress & cook|website=[[Independent.co.uk]] |date=18 September 2011}}</ref> The couple wed in 1981<ref>GRO Register of Marriages: SEP 1981 13 1708 KEN&CHELSEA – Scarfe = Asher</ref> and have a daughter and two sons.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2012/oct/28/alex-scarfe-full-english-channel-four |title=Scarfe Jr takes up father's satirical pen |first=Vanessa |last=Thorpe|date= 28 October 2012 |work=The Observer }}</ref>

== Awards and accolades ==
* On 22 November 2005 the United Kingdom's ''[[Press Gazette]]'' named its 40 most influential journalists, and included Scarfe alongside just two other cartoonists, [[Carl Giles]], and [[Matt Pritchett]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Pearlman |first=Julia |url=http://www.brandrepublic.com/login/News/528942/ |title=Media Bulletin |publisher=Brandrepublic.com |access-date=2019-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313090325/http://www.brandrepublic.com/login/News/528942/ |archive-date=13 March 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Scarfe was awarded 'Cartoonist of the Year' at the [[British Press Awards 2006]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/british-press-awards-past-winners/ |title=British Press Awards: Past winners |work=Press Gazette |date=29 November 2007 }}</ref>
* Scarfe was appointed [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=58729|date=14 June 2008|page=8 |supp=y}}</ref>
* In 2011, a [[fossil]] [[pterosaur]] discovered in [[Kimmeridge Bay]], Dorset, was named ''[[Cuspicephalus scarfi]]'' in his honour.<ref name="fossil">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-15816622|title=Thatcher cartoonist Gerald Scarfe is Dorset fossil namesake|date=21 November 2011|work=[[BBC Online]]|access-date=22 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111122083434/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-15816622|archive-date=22 November 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book |last=Scarfe |first=Gerald |title=Gerald Scarfe's People |year=1966 |ref=none }}
* {{cite book |last=Scarfe |first=Gerald |author-mask=2 |title=Gerald Scarfe |year=1982 |publisher=[[Thames & Hudson]] |isbn=978-0500272688|ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Scarfe |first=Gerald |author-mask=2 |title=Father Kissmass and Mother Claws |year=1985 |publisher=[[Hamish Hamilton]] |isbn=978-0241116951|ref=none}} authored with [[Bel Mooney]]
* {{cite book |last=Scarfe |first=Gerald |author-mask=2 |title=Scarfe by Scarfe: An Autobiography in Pictures |year=1986 |publisher=[[Hamish Hamilton]] |isbn=978-0241119594|ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Scarfe |first=Gerald |author-mask=2 |title=Seven Deadly Sins |year=1987 |publisher=[[Hamish Hamilton]]|isbn=978-0241123942|ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Scarfe |first=Gerald |author-mask=2 |title=Scarfeface |year=1993 |publisher=[[Sinclair-Stevenson]] |isbn=978-1856193139|ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Scarfe |first=Gerald |author-mask=2 |title=Heroes and Villains: Scarfe at the National Portrait Gallery |year=2003 |publisher=[[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]] |isbn=978-1855143388|ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Scarfe |first=Gerald |author-mask=2 |title= Drawing Blood: Forty Five Years of Scarfe |year=2005 |publisher=[[Little, Brown Book Group]] |isbn=978-0316729529|ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Scarfe |first=Gerald |author-mask=2 |title=Monsters: How George Bush Saved the World… |year=2008 |publisher=[[Little, Brown Book Group]] |isbn=978-1408700853|ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Scarfe |first=Gerald |author-mask=2 |title=The Making of Pink Floyd - The Wall |year=2010 |publisher=[[Orion Publishing Group|Orion]] |isbn=978-0306819971|ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Scarfe |first=Gerald |author-mask=2 |title= Long Drawn Out Trip: A Memoir |year=2019 |publisher=[[Little, Brown Book Group]] |isbn=9780349143491|ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Scarfe |first=Gerald |author-mask=2 |title= Scarfe: Sixty Years of Being Rude |year=2019 |publisher=[[Little, Brown Book Group]] |isbn=9781408711712|ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Scarfe |first=Gerald |author-mask=2 |title= The Art of Pink Floyd The Wall |year=2021 |publisher=[[Little, Brown Book Group]] |isbn=9781408714324|ref=none}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.geraldscarfe.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/artists/geraldscarfe/biography British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131018000329/http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/artists/geraldscarfe/biography |date=18 October 2013 }}
* {{IMDb name|0769156|Gerald Scarfe}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070820133338/http://www.rogerwaters.org/22/scarfeint.html Interview with Scarfe, picture of Scarfe and examples of his work]
* [http://www.floydianslip.com/pink-floyd/interviews/gerald-scarfe.php Radio interview with Scarfe, streaming audio and transcript]
* [http://sounds.bl.uk/Arts-literature-and-performance/ICA-talks/024M-C0095X0242XX-0100V0 Scarfe discusses his collected works, ''Scarfe by Scarfe'', with George Melly and Michael Kustov] – a British Library sound recording
* [http://www.floydianslip.com/pink-floyd/interviews/gerald-scarfe.php An interview with Gerald Scarfe] by "[[Floydian Slip]]" host Craig Bailey, October 2010

===Videos===
* {{YouTube|_0v07InoFiU|Goodbye Blue Sky}}
* {{YouTube|FCMHmDnfD6I|The Trial}}

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